Post election-selection trauma: Still going strong in Hollywood
Remember “Post election-selection trama”–or “PEST?” It’s the liberal disease that predated Bush Derangement Syndrome, causing lefties of all shapes and sizes (e.g., Michael Moore) to sink into depression and shock as a result of the 2004 election.
Symptoms linger. And a new Hollywood movie’s upcoming release is bound to help stoke PESTies further. Via Politico:
One of the most highly anticipated political telefilms being released next year is “Recount,” a fast-paced depiction of the behind-the-scenes drama that took place in Florida during the disputed 2000 Gore-Bush election.
Eager to avoid the last-minute flap over accuracy that beset the ABC miniseries “The Path to 9/11” last year, the makers of HBO’s upcoming docudrama allowed real-life figures depicted in the project to make script notes, visit the set and offer advice to director Jay Roach…
…“Recount,” which wrapped shooting in Florida earlier this month after six weeks of production and is scheduled for release in May, was written by actor Danny Strong (of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”).
According to the movie industry “Black List,” an unofficial but influential ranking of the “best-liked” screenplays making the rounds at studios, Strong’s effort has been acclaimed as the best script in Hollywood.
Centering primarily on Democratic operatives Ron Klain (Kevin Spacey) and Michael Whouley (Denis Leary), “Recount” also shows the moves and countermoves orchestrated by Republican icon James Baker III (Tom Wilkinson) and Bush/Cheney attorney Ben Ginsberg (Bob Babalan).
Gee, ya think a Hollywood movie about The Goracle’s election defeat could possibly be fair and balanced?
“We can’t project how someone will feel after watching the film,” added the HBO rep, saying the channel’s goal was to get the input of “all the key players” and “get the facts right.”
Earlier this year, the possibility was raised that this “Recount” might be swayed and history rewritten because writer Strong and executive producers Paula Weinstein and Sydney Pollack, as well as HBO Films President Colin Callender, are all Democratic supporters.
Naaaahhh.
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HBO is planning to make an unbiased film, titled “Recount” and scheduled to premiere early next year, about the 2000 presidential election.
That could be difficult, if not impossible, to pull off, because the director, executive producer, and writer of the movie are all Democrats. Oh, and Colin Callender, the president of HBO Films, is also a D.
The Hollywood Reporter this week quoted Callender as saying the movie won’t take sides and instead would be “a fascinating look at democracy.” Callender has made political donations to then-Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (D-Tenn.), Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.).
Executive Producer Paula Weinstein, who has given to Sens. Clinton, Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.), praised Sydney Pollack for being the only director able to deal with the “dramatic twists and turns of the story with honesty and truthfulness.”
Pollack has contributed tens of thousands of dollars to Democrats over the years. Some of the recipients were Clinton, Boxer, and California Reps. Barbara Lee and Maxine Waters. In 1999, however, he gave to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
Daniel Strong, the writer of “Recount,” has claimed he did detailed research and conducted numerous interviews with the people involved.That is news to one Republican operative who was in the middle of the hanging-chad controversy, who said he knows of no Florida Republican — including former Rep. Katherine Harris (R-Fla.) — who was interviewed by Strong.
Len Amato, the senior vice president of HBO Films who gave $2,000 to Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) in 2004, said he can understand the concerns, but noted that his company has a long track record of thoroughly researching its historical topics before filming them.
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Can’t they just MoveOn?
didn’t the NYT recount show that Bush won?
I started to just say “get over it already!” But really, there’s nothing to get over. President Bush flat-out won the 2000 election. End of story!
Yes, but that doesn’t count because it wasn’t to their benefit, and Gore still lost. Now, if the recount by the NYT did show Gore winning, only THEN it would matter.
…“Recount,” which wrapped shooting in Florida earlier this month after six weeks of production and is scheduled for release in May, was written by actor Danny Strong (of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”).
Hey I thought these guys were on strike?
“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Man made Global warming” Boy these moonbats really like scary doom and gloom fantasy don’t they.
I wonder if one scene will show Dick Cheney rigging the recount just before he goes to New York to plant bombs in the World Trade Center.
Hollywood is stuck on stupid. They are deranged.
I think it was the US and Florida Constitutions that showed that Bush won.
Can you believe that the leftards have sucked us in to this conversation yet again with the soon to be released movie?
Of course, the good news is that most welfare recipients do not get HBO on their 60 inch widescreen TVs, so, half the liberal base will not see the show.
The 2000 election is where all modern lefty conspiracies and BDS were born. The glasses were duct taped on, the kool-aid was passed around.
#7
No, the locals here in Palm Beach Fla. still won’t buy that Bush won. PEST was a big thing in tony Boca with all the transplanted liberal New Yorkers.
The Fla. lower courts (liberal even) did affirm the results and wanted to move on, but Fla. Supremes wanted to interpret the election laws to keep on counting and interpreting the votes.
The whackjob moonbats where I lived still seem to have access to Gore-Lieberman bumper stickers because they have them on cars newer than 2000s.
I have HBO but will pass on RECOUNT and anything certain actors “star” in. Spacey is another clown who adores dictators like Chavez, his buddy.
When will originality and creativity ever come back to Hollywood? Looks like they’re stuck in a self-serving mode here. Numerous political bombed movies, remakes of remakes of remakes. Is there ANYONE out there that can a good story anymore?
I bet the fact that 27 of 28 Florida voting precincts that had issues being run by Democrats won’t make it in the movie, nor the attempts to surpress the military votes.
Just another reason why I don’t subscribe to HBO or Showtime. Why subsidize their crap.
BS…. Beyond Stupid
They’re combined IQ couldnt fill a cookie jar.
The topic has been covered. HBO should have just based the movie off of Bill Sammon’s book At Any Cost: How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election. Oh,oh, wait, that book has facts about how GW Bush actually won the election and how Al Gore was actually the one attempting to disenfranchise millions of voters. It was about how Al Gore attempted to recount ballots only in a few heavily democrat counties and fought attempts to get ballot recounts elsewhere. It was about how he tried to get several thousands of military ballots thrown out (and succeeded to a great extent). Actually, pretty much it covered what a spoiled brat rat fink narcissist Al Gore really is and touches on the deep corruption of those he surrounds himself with. Yeah, I’m SURE that didn’t fit into the HBO or the starring actor’s agenda in any way, shape or form.
If this had come out a year after the election debacle as a “You were there” sort of semi-documentary piece I could see it. Why now??? Oh wait, there’s and election coming up. Never mind.
Are they going to mention Gore going to court to block military votes? Remember he wanted every vote to count as long as there was a 90% chance it would be for him.
As I recall, all the major media outlets decended on Florida once the actual ballots were available to the public and they all came to the same conclusion….BUSH WON. That is exactly why it was a non-story because they all figured they could find out that Bush was selected and they were proven wrong in every way. The only way Gore would come out ahead was to “count” hundreds of votes that were not votes. They were deciding what a voter had intended to do. Like punching a hole in a piece of paper was impossible.
The entire fiasco was such a joke with Gore’s team selecting only 3 heavily Democrat counties and using a stacked deck of 2-1 Democrats to decide to count votes for Gore….of course a dimpled chad was never counted for Bush.
Bush won the initial count, the recount, and the second recount but that wasn’t good enough. The clowns in the Florida supreme court re-wrote the election laws after the election in order to change the results. The US Supreme court stepped in because of the “selected” recount that was going on and not a full statewide recount that Gore’s people didn’t want.
Classic liberal re-writing of history and refusing to accept FACTS!
#11 I wonder also how the fact that some of TV networks called it early for Gore actually suppressed the voting in the Fla. Panhandle, which is a later time zone. I had same kind of thinking in ‘04 when the “exit” polls supposedly pointed to a sKerry landslide.
Perhaps it was poetic justice that Pat Buchanan received mistaken votes from the confused geezers, mostly Jewish who didn’t understand the dem-designed buttefly ballot. The woman behind the design who was county election boss, Theresa LaPorepa was quite vilified by her fellow liberals.
You’ll recall the partisan interpretations of the so-called hanging chads, what voter actually meant to do, etc.
Doesn’t matter that a host of liberal newpapers recounted endlessly and Bush kept winning, as far as trying to show Gore won. You’ll also recall that initially Gore wanted to pick and choose what counties the recounts should go on.
Not that Bush is without his flaws, but I thank god neither the goracle nor Lurch won against Dubya. I pray that Hillary loses too.
Didn’t Algore cede the election to GW. I distinctly remember watching a telephone call being broadcast, as Algore tells GW congratulations on the winning the election fair and square……..
……….for now.
Those boneheads can’t even write up a quick review without showing their bias:
Just a note..the “countermoves” they did, was to want a legal accounting of the Algore camp.
Anyone want to bet my vote from the Hohenfels Germany Combat Training Center was counted? (I gots a rilly nice bridge too, if’n yer interested)
Let the dems continue to concentrate on 2000. It’ll keep their focus off of the future and cause them to continue screaming We Wuz Robbed! while the voters yawn.
This is good for the GOP. Now if only the Republicans can select a true conservative, we will handily defeat the dems…
Of course, HBO gave us the “black box voting” stuff last year prior to the ‘06 elections. Funny, they piped all that “the elections are rigged and Democracy is in jeopardy” stuff down once their guys finally won a few elections, eh?
Anywho, HBO had some of the most creative writing around (early Sopranos, Deadwood, Curb your Enthusiasm) but they officially lost me when they moved Rosie’s cruise over to the HBO family channels. They have the right to do that – instead of keeping it on the general channels, where more adult oriented genres are the norm – but I have the right to take my money to their competition.
HBO is propagandized television & when they’re interested in entertaining their viewers they’re unequaled but when they’re interested in swaying opinions they’re nothing more than Olbermann with higher ratings.
BDS is a good disease,theres no cure and it keeps the loons sick all the time.
I hate Hollywood and “celebrities” more and more. I can’t even stand watching them now. I’ll stick to TCM and can do without any of these people. I don’t relate to them or agree with and am sick of hearing about these movies they are making and all the noise they are making.
Gore lost, there is no recount. Now, I wish they would all get lost.
On December 27th, 2007 at 10:45 am, hatelibs said: #16
Exactly right. And I believe the counties Algore wanted to recount were counties he had won. Now why would he want to recount counties he had won??? I was in the Fla. panhandle at the time (west of Tallahassee begins the central time zone) and the news media (and I use the term loosely) had declared Gore the winner more than an hour before the polls had closed. Many in long lines turned around and went home due to that false news. Further, military absentee ballots from overseas, even though received before election day, were not counted because they did not have a post mark. Now you know why I call them DEMOCRAPS.
The usual tinfoil hat take on election results: “if the Democrat wins, fair election, if the Republican wins, they must have cheated.”
Wouldn’t surprise me to see goracle drafted for ‘08 run. Afterall he is a deity on earth and what a way to bring peace and harmony back to mother earth. You saw how much he and billy did in eight years against AGW and terrorism.
Well #22, your money is going to line moonbat Turner’s pockets. I have three HBO channels not as an option in my package.
I see Hillary is talking about how she knew Bhutto so well. yada yada. Don’t know any female off hand whom I’d like a US Prez. Thought Rice might be nice until she lost her mind at State Dept. What Republican women still active are not RINOs?
Ha! Absolutely. If they only had an extra 20 or 30,000 “undocumented Americans” in Ohio in 2004, Kerry would have won!
The problem with Gore being drafted or deciding to run in 2008 would be that he would actually have to debate his global warming theories, and he would lose very badly, no matter how the liberal MSM would attempt to protect him.
There is a really dirty little secret about the 2000 election that should be understood. The left freaks because Gore won the popular vote but the underlying facts are the reason why the Electoral College is sooooo important. In reality Bush won by a landslide geographically. I’m sure we have all seen the famous red/blue states map. The scary one is the red/blue county map. It’s totally red with some blue spots.
Bush wan 60% of the states but 70% of the counties. Here’s more… Without the big majorities Gore got in a handful of big cities, he would have gotten obliterated.
For example:
Without Gore’s spread in Philadelphia, Bush won Pennsylvania.
Without Gore’s spread in Detroit, Bush won Michigan
Without Gore’s spread in Chicago, Bush won Illinois.
Those states are a lot more than just one city but the city carried the states for Gore. That is a scary thought. Now think about the electoral count if those states, that Bush won the majority of the state except for one corrupt city in each case, gone the other way. Like I said, landslide. Winning 70% of the individul counties is a landslide regardless of the population density. The bottom line is that unless we want five or six big cities to determine who the POTUS is, we better maintain the Electoral College.
Since I am a Florida voter, what upset me besides all the legal games was when Gore tried to propose to the Bush camp that they sit down and decide together how to do the recount.
Excuse me but a sovereign state had election laws to cover that.
Gore was trying to bypass the law of the state here by his proposal.
If he was willing to attempt to shove states rights out the door for his own purposes to get elected, how much would he have followed states rights in office?
And if a Democrat doesn’t win after the first recount, you need to do a few recounts until they DO win.
Remember Washington State? Governor Gregroire? More like Fraudoire?
Win elections by any means necessary. Here’s recap:
There were 6 official recounts. Bush won all of them. One of the NYT’s recounts said that Gore won. That made headline front page. Three weeks later they retracted and buried the retraction, I think on page 38. One lib friend of mine still remembers the one headline that said Gore won and doesn’t believe that there was a retraction.
Denis Leary? That bore?
Could someone please explain the Electoral College to these people?
Hey now… I loathe moonbats as much as the next guy but leave Buffy out of it. BTVS is one of the best shows network TV ever managed to put on.
Vote stealing/manipulation has become a Democrat specialty. East St. Louis, IL and Detroit, MI and St. Louis, MO immediately come to mind. I used to have a website bookmarked that tracked voter fraud but I’m not finding it right now.
AlohaGuy,
They want the Electoral College eliminated. That way they have complete power over this country. Like I posted earlier, a handful of big cities with concentrations of voters, ignorant government dependent voters, would determine national elections. We all know the registration percentage in the big cities is totally skewed Demortat by wide margins.
The Electoral College has population proportions built in to it. But, it was designed to prevent the total national popular vote from determining the election because the population density in cities would wipe out about 2/3 of the country geographically from having any voice nationally. There’s a reason each state has an equal representation in the Senate but proportionate representation in the House. That’s also why the Electoral College exists in order to give the whole country their rightful voice nationally.
The founding fathers really were amazing!
Liberal: Someone who is angrier about the 2000 elections than about 9/11/01.
More flops…and they wonder why…
One of the issues grossly overlooked in the 2000 Florida ballot was the ’snowbird’ effect.
For those of you who may not be familiar, a ’snowbird’ is a person that lives in the Northern part of the country for 9 months of year and spends the winter at their summer homes in Florida, or other Southern states.
Thousands were afforded the opportunity to illegally vote twice. Once in their Northern state home and also in Florida.
As the majority of ’snowbirds’ tend to live in the dense populated areas of major Northern cities, the majority of the illegally cast votes would tend to be democrat.
To date, no serious action has been taken against these illegal acts and of course, no serious action has been taken to prevent this from happening in the future.
Taking into account other illegal voting issues and the unconstitutional attack on the military vote. Gore did not even come close to winning Florida.
He did successfully take away the constitutional rights of the military to cast absentee ballots. But, this should not be surprising considering how little respect the Clinton team had for the constitution and the rights of others.
I wonder how much of the film’s time will be spent on how Gore didn’t carry his home state of Tennessee – thus putting Florida into play in the first place.
A film about the 2000 election.
Talk about beating a dead horse.
Indeed they were, otherwise, our elections would be decided by NYC and Los Angeles.
And to hell with the rest of “flyover country”. They don’t really count anyway.
Leave the Electoral College alone!
We know that the movie will glorify Gore trial lawyer David Boies. He is a saint on the law school circuit. We know that the movie will not show how the Gore legal team totally misrepresented a ruling from an Illinois court and used that misrepresentation to win key rulings. We know that the movie will not show the strong Democratic Party ties of all the Florida Supreme Court justices. Recall that after the Florida Supreme Court overruled Judge Sauls and ordered a recount, the Florida Supreme Court virtually ordered the election of Al Gore. Dan Rather, giddy with delirium, went on the air, and asked rhetorically: “Will the Republican US Supreme Court” now swing into action? Interesting that Rather and other MSM reporters repeatedly referred to the “Republican US Supreme Court” but never once referred to the “Democrat Florida Supreme Court”. And I wonder if the movie will even mention the brief effort by the Gore camp to prevent the counting of write in ballots by soldiers abroad because the Gore camp felt that military voters would swing to Bush. Fortunately, Joe Lieberman put a halt to that effort. And I wonder if the movie will mention the lawsuit filed by Gore supporters in which they sought to literally convert Bush votes to Gore votes. They had an “expert witness” who made a “statistical analysis” and then had to fess up that he owed his federal job to an appointment by the Clintons. Somehow I doubt it.
I am a one man research department for MM and hot air.
“Count Every Vote; Every Vote Counts” is codewords for Democratic Vote Fraud!
I was thinking the same thing.
I wonder if they got Penn and Teller to play Gore and Lieberman?
Well guys just another piece of crap from Hollywood we can all ignore.
These idiots never learn and they wonder why they are not making big bank any longer…hmm I wonder why?
Danny Strong is 5′2″ and other than a recurring role on “Gilmore Girls” hasn’t done much notable acting. When Tom Cruise towers above you, what else can an actor do to make himself look big other than write some BDS-fueled “art”?
That’s what Dan Rather used to say over at CBS before his “retirement.” (Now he is on Chris Matthew’s tv show. Big surprise, huh?)
I know BS when I CBS.
Why are we wasting our time on this nonsesnse?